Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength, Bull Moore was marvelous. He could fight three men at a time, toss a waiter across the bar of a lunch counter, lift the front wheels of an automobile with one hand. With a slight edge on his appetite, he would break a dozen eggs into his mother's frying pan and eat them in six mouthfuls...
...others had fumbled, Governor Earle had made a putout. Last week he justified the Cambria shut-down by saying: "In this crisis the choice to be made was lives or dollars. I chose lives. . . ." Last week, the immediate danger to lives having disappeared, he was able without inconsistency to lift martial law and allow the mill to reopen (see p. 9). This indicated that his original step was an emergency measure for public safety and rebutted the charge that he had exceeded the powers of his office. This week's dynamiting of the Cambria mill's water supply...
...calling strikes in 17 coal mines owned by Republic, Youngstown and Bethlehem. The war which the Governors hoped to settle was getting bigger and uglier by the hour, yet up to them to settle it remained. For from the White House came no sign that Franklin Roosevelt would lift a Federal finger...
When he slit open the sac, the pink buttocks of a five-month fetus protruded. In attempting to lift out the fetus, Dr. Brunkow felt some resistance: the mon ster's head was attached to the sac. Dr. Brunkow cut this attachment and then found that the inclusion's liver, which had developed outside its body, was also attached to the sac. Another nick of a scalpel freed Barbara Stobie of her ab normal burden and permitted Dr. Brunkow to close her up. He left the skin-like sac within her, to be removed at some more favorable...
...bright are agricultural prospects that farm buying has been suggested as the fillip that might lift industry out of a mid-summer slump. Even Wall Street's gloomsters do not seriously believe that Recovery has run its full course. At worst they expect a normal summer lull to develop into a temporary business recession...